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SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1917
"Any prejudice whatever will
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do not share in it themselves
truckle to it and flatter it and
accept it as a law of nature."
John Stuart Mill.
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AN INSULT TO PATRIOTS
The registration for the selective
draft is over. It passed without any
serious disturbances anywhere in the
United States, although many arrests
were made of people who were guilty
of aiding the anti-registration propo
ganda. So far as the dispatches show,
not a single colored citizen of the
United States was delinquent in any
way whatever.
And the colored people constitute
the only group of which this can be
said.
Now that the registration is over, it
must not be -forgotten, the colored
citizens were subjected to an infamous
insult and one which was not offered
to any other class of citizens. The
insult consisted of the inscription in
the lower left hand corner of the
registration card. "If person is of
African descent tear off this corner."
It was an insulting classification,
separation and 'segregation to which
no other group was subjected, not
even German aliens and spies or
THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON
British, French and Italian "Mis
sions" have already visited the United
States and others from Russia, Japan
and Serbia are enroute. The British
and French missions visited the tomb
Washington and placed wreaths
thereon. Millions of loyal colored
America citizens are deterred from
visiting the tomb of the "Father of
His Country" by the knowledge of the
they would be obliged to travel
in jim-crow cars to reach Washington's
last resting place.
TRIBUNE VOMITS AGAIN.
The following from the Chicago
Tribune seems like a voice from the
tomb. It is on a par with some of
the stuff printed by the copperhead
Tribune before and during the slave
The writer may
CHINESE, JAPANESE, EAST INDIANS
SHOULD BE
CHRISTAINS!
SPECIAL SEGREGATED HEAVENS
FOR ALL COLORED RACES.
WE NEED YOUR NUMBERS TO MAKE
CHRISTIANITY APPEAR STRONG.
WE ALSO NEED YOUR TRADE.
We have had years of experience among
the Colored People in the United States and
have either remained silent or encouraged
mob, murder, segregation and other things
until they have largely become docile, un
complaining CHRISTIANS,
complaining Christians.
We are now ready for the Colored races of
the East.
INTERNATIONAL CHURCH PUBLICITY BUREAU,
Tokio Calcutta Hongkong Shanghai Pekin
Bombay Singapore Bangkok
naturalized German-American thou
sands of whom are at heart traitors
to their chosen country and many of
whom would not hesitate to strike and
will not hesitate to strike for the
Kaiser, if the opportunity comes.
It is said that the United States
has gone into war to fight for democ
cracy. If this is true the undemocratic
conditions at home should be eliminat
ed before the soldiers go abroad to* toward the results suggested in theship
fight for democracy.
Cut out all Jim Crow business
the United States.
Give us liberty, equality and democ
racy.
been born since 1870 but hisand
think machine was evidently cast in
one of the left over molds of 1850. It
is headed:
:/WKJfcjCK MAN, STAY SOUTH!
They say down south that "niggers
are-All rfgbjt in their place," but where
is that ^Blace? South? At Memphis,
Tenn., a Negro x*as recently burned
alive. North? At East St. Louis, llCfhorrible
Negroes are knobbed, beaten, and run
out of town.
-We taunt the south with race preju
dice when it burns a "bad nigger," but
just see how we northerners detest
even "good niggers!" The real race
prejudice is ours. Our very philan
thropists betray it. They saw to a
black man, "God bless you, good-by,"
whereas the south says,
you, come here!" Or put it this way:
The northerner is a great friend of
the Negro but not of a Negro the
outherner is a great friend of a Negro,
but not of the Negro.
Prof. Munsterberg once described
the race as "passive at every turn of
fortune," yet within the last year
Negroes by the thousand have actively
undertaken to find a place for them
selves. They have come north. It
was a huge mistake. They escape bar
barous punishment for their occasional
crimes while winning no appreciation
for their habitual virtues. They are
disliked. When their presence be
comes a burden, as at East St. Louis,
they are abused.
It is on these terms only that they
enjoy the longed for "liberties of the
north"its "social equality," for indimmed.
stance. But do they really enjoy that?
Our observation goes to show that the
Negro is happiest when the white race
asserts its superiority, provided that
sympathy and understanding accom
pany the assertion. Not long ago a
Virginian noticed a very gloomy black
porter in a northern hotel, and, learn
ing that the Negro had come from
Virginia, said, "You black
THE MAN WHO DARES
I honor the man who in the consci
entious discharge of his duty dares to
stand alone the world, with ignorant,
intolerant judgment, may condemn,
the countenances of relatives may be
averted, and the hearts of friends grow
cold, but the sense of duty done shall
be sweeter than the applause of the
world, the countenances of relatives or
thehearts of friends.Charles Sumner.
fool go back to Virginia!" The reply
revealed much: "O, Cunnel, dem's de
fust kind wuds dat's been spoken to
me since Ah come up noff!"
Southerners insist that "the nigger
must be kept down." They enforce
the color line. Yet they will work side
by side with Negroes, befriend them
in adversity, and overlook their minor
failings. Gradually they are working
carton on this page. They do not hate
Negroes In their heart they like
them. Said Dooley: "I'm naught
troubled whin the naygur. is amon'st
his oppressors, Hinnessy. What
throubles me is whin he falls into th'
hands IV his liberators."
In the same city where the forego
ing 'vomit was spewed up, Miss So
phronisba Breckenridge, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, a Southern woman
and one of the famous Kentucky
family of Breckenridge, said:
"The cry 'has gone up from a large
number of people: What are we going
to do with these 'dreadful men and
women' who are coming to us from
the South? I say we should be here
to welcome them, to help them, to give
them a chance to make Chicago a bet
ter home than they could find in the
South."
A NEEDED WAR MEASURE.
The government of the United
States ought to Stop lynching as a
needed war measure. As a military
necessity, loyal patriotic citizens
ought to have a chance for their lives
no man, even though he be inno
cent of crime is safe when the lyncher
is abroad.
The stern hand of military law
ought to descend upon the people
who are defying the law and making
a ipockery of democracy.
The daily newspapers often con
tain "scare heads" and accounts of
man burnings, where the
victim is drenched with oil and
burned at the stake. If some of these
papers should get out of the country
and fall into the hands of the Ger
mans who have despoiled Belgium or
into the hands of the Turks who have
massacred the Armenians they might
use them as a justification of their DARKIES are making great progress
atrocities:
Loyal patriotic citizens of the
United States demand the suppres
sion of lynching and the summary
punishment of the lynchers as a
needed war measure.
"CONSISTENCY, THOU ART A
JEWEL."
The Chicago Tribune, noted for itsto
inconsistency and illogical reasoning,
has an article on Home Rule for Ire
land and a free Poland. It also says:
"We can find plenty of reasons for
insisting that the war shall free the
Armenians from the Turks, shall give
Greece a republic, Russia a democracy,
Belgium an assurance of integrity,
France a promise of security, and that
it shall enable the statute of Liberty
in New York harbor to shine un-
"We do not ask that our allies free
the Moroccans, the Hindus, or
theSunday
Koreans, but it seems within reason
to ask that they give Home Rule to
the Irish and thus help the United
States in one of its own local prob-
lems."
Why does not the Tribune go the
full length in democracy and ask
freedom for the Moroccans, the Hindus
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and the Koreans? Is it because their
complexions are a trifle darker than
the other nationalities mentioned?
"But in a war which elects democ
racy as the principle there ought to
be a different condition in some of
the lands which are allied to the prin
ciple. The United States, which in a
real sense is about to fight for the
security of the TJnited States, and in
equally real sense is about to fight
for the principle of democracy, would
fight better if the allies to which it
is joined were better established in
consistency."
Speaking of consistency, the Tri
bune could do a great "work along that
line by advocating justice for
theOF
colored American citizens who are in
sulted, and oppressed by the state
governments of the South and whose
lives are never safe from the murder
ous Southern mob. But instead it has
not been a very long time since this
same Tribune advocated the stripping
from the colored citizen the few rights
he now enjoys.
"Consistency, thou art a jewel"
THE GUARDIAN ON DR. FRISSELL.
Commenting on the editorial in the
Richmond Planet, which is printed in
this issue, objecting to one of thegovernment
points in Dr.?Frissell's recent memo
rial, the Guardian says:
"Thus saith in very truth the Planet
"We rise also to deny directly that i ^eL ^"f ^of
the 'quiet service' lives of Booker
Washington or of Russa Moton se
cured recognition of rights. The most
striking thing about the race-leader
career of Dr. Washington was
that coincident with it went the great
est period of loss of citizenship and
of legal debarment from rights ever
known in any race and especially dur
ing the time Dr. Washington preached
most pronouncedly the doctrine of
'quietly deserving' rights. No further
exposition of that matter by us is any
longer needed
"We warn Dr. Frissell against re
viving the Booker Washington-no-egi
tation issue. Dr. Washington's own
friends do not relish or desire it."
THE NEW HAMPTON MOVEMENT.
The meaning of the sudden "Hamp
ton Patriotic Movement" now being
pulled off in Chicago, Detroit and
other Northern cities isn't quite clear.
THE APPEAL has received a num
hor nf
that there is something queer about 'est {Lit
the "movement."
The papers state that one Dr.
Charles F. Taylor of New York, one of
the leaders in the "movement" who is
now making speeches in Chicago,
where the segregation question has
reached an acute stage, has on several
occasions asserted to white audiences:
"The negro wants segregation as much
as or more than the white jnan." This
statement is not only false, but it is
dangerous and unfriendly doctrine to
be disseminated by the representative
of an institution which claims to stand
for "Christian" training and "uplift"
and all that sort of stuff.
The writer of one of the letters re
ceived by THE APPEAL, states that
she visited the Hampton exhibit at
the Hotel La Salle where she was in
formed by the charming lady who has
charge of the exhibit, that "the
What does it mean?
The government is a victim to the
High Cost of Living just as most of
us poor mortals are for according to
reports this week the expenditures for
the fiscal year thus far have reached
$1,600,000,000, more than $900,000,000
in excess of last years expenditures up
the present date and thus makes a
new high record in American history.
The chief item of the increase
$607,500,000was purchase of the ob
ligations of foreign governments in
exchange for loans advanced to the
Allies. The sum does not represent
by approximately $140,000,000 the total
amount authorized in loans.
The general assembly of the Pres
byterian Church of the United States
in session at Dallas, Texas, has put
its official ban on Sunday sports, the
newspaper, liquor and to
bacco. As the meeting is being held
in a part of the country where lynch
ing and burning men at the stake is
one of the Sunday sports of the mobs
which fill up on bad whiskey and
squirt tobacco juice, THE APPEAL
suggests that a resolution denounc
ing lynching be adopted.
Former Alderman Oscar DePriest
of Chicago is being tried under an
indictment to protect gambling
houses in that city. The trial will to
a great extent be a spectacular battle
between colored attorneys. Attorney
Edward S. Wilson, assistant states
attorney is to make the opening ad
dress for the state. The famous Ed
ward H. Morris will be the chief aid
mwo
wre i ttM4
for the defense. It will be a battle 2^!^* ,leaS
royal.
According to statistics prepared
by Frederick L. Hoffman for "Spec
tator," Memphis, Tenn., has the un
enviable distinction-**! being the mur
der metropolis of the United States.
More homicides were committed in
Memphis than in any other city in
proportion to the population.
i The East S Louis riot situation is
to be investigated thoroughly by the
Illinois State Council of Defense. A
sun committee is now in session
taking testimony, t^t
WITH 'MARKED CARDS"
In Its Army of Democracy U. S.
A. Begins With a New Jim
Crowism Added to the Rest to
Fight for World Democracy,
but to Have Distinctions of Col
or in Our Own ArmyDenial
of Equality.
(From the Journal, the leading daily
paper of Boston, Mass, June 28,
1917)
THE DEAREST PROMISE IN THE
WHOLE OF THE CONSTITUTION
THE UNITED STATES IS THE
PROMISE OF EQUALITY FOR ALL,
REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR OR
PREVIOUS CONDITION OF SERVI-
TUDE.
But It is not always pleasant for a
Negro to read that promise.
"Marked Cards."
Nor will the Negro feel a thrill of
promise when he comes to write
down his name for service to his coun
try. For the registration card makes
a distinction of color. The man who
puts his name to that piece of paste
board signifies that his life is at the
disposal of this government in war.
That should be enough. But nothe
asks that he shall spe
cify his "color." Literally, this govern
ment is beginning with marked cards
We don't need to review the fine
record of the African race in fighting
th battles America^ Its men
have been in the front rank wher
ever there came an opportunity to
serve History vouches for that.
0
wt^ A aristocratic snobbishness has drawn
ber of letters and newspaper clippings up the registration blanks, a demo
from the daily papers bearing on the cratic decency must later denyh thhe
subject and gleans from them the idea
Now a Jim-Crow Registration.
And here, when we come to fight
for democracy, we find distinctions
drawn according to the color of a
man's skin.
Negroes have not fared well dur
ing the present national administra
tion. They have disappeared from
public offices, and Jim Crow grip
of the South has grown firmer And
NOW A JIM CROW REGISTRA-
TION. Race and color in our "Army of De
mocracy."
If we were to define democracy as
applied to the army of a democratic
nation, we should picture men of
allJohn
races and all creeds grouped together
equality. A white millionaire's son
might share a tent with a Negro and
a Chinese. But"color"!
Race, color and previous condition
of servitude apparantly are to be
recognized in our army of democracy..
Blunder No. 1.
Must Be Wiped Out.
But it must be wiped out. If an
dlstiction.
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SPECIMEN AD
Submitted by THE APPEAL For Use
in the Newspapers of the East
St. Louis, Mo., June 4.A fund of
$1,000,000 is to be put into religious
publicity in the secular papers of
Japan, India, and China, according to
announcement made today in the
church publicity conference of the con
vention of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World, by the Rev George
M. Fqwles of New York, treasurer of
the board of foreign missions of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Mad Savagery
(Springfield Republican)
While we are so critical of the na
tions known as our enemies it is
morally disconcerting tp have staged
in America such mad savagery as the
latest burning to death of a colored
man by a mob in Tennessee. The
colored man was clearly guilty, it
seems, of the fiendish murder of a
white girl, but retaliation in fiendish
ness gets us nowhere in correcting
or even punishing a criminal class.
When race feeling is involved it is
impossible to conceive of anything so
disastrous in its ultimate effects as
the treatment which mobs occasion
ally give to these black men At a
time when Americans need to show
real capacity for mass discipline and
respect for authority, we are forced
to contemplate these hideous specta
cles of mass brutishness and social
anarchy.
The Cause of Migration
(Atlanta (Ga.) Independent)
When meat was 15c a pound and
flour $8.00 a barrel, the colored laborer
received from $4.00 to $8.00 a week.
Now meat is 30c a pound and flour
$16.00 a barrel, he is receiving the
same wages. He cannot live at this
and the white man cannot expect him
to remain in the South and live on the
starvation wages he is paying him
when the fields and the factories in
the North and West are offering him
living wages. If the white man will
suppress lynching and lawlessness in
the rural districts, pay the colored
man living wages, give him a square
deal on the farms, better schools, open
the doors of the shops and factories
to his prowess, and let him in theunder
labor unions, municipal ordinances
(to keep colored men from leaving the
South) will be unnecessary.
"Negroes and Dogs Not Allowed"
(From the Nashville Clarion)
Down in Houston, Texas are some
elevators in public buildings labeled
'NEGROES AND DOGS NOT ALLOW-
ED." Generous Classification! Such
signs as these account in such meas
ure, for the exceedingly rapid manner
in which the Colored men are depopu-
lating the South They can be neithera
tow^n like this. They* have hearts and
souls and human pride, just like the
people of other races.
Must Have a Place in School
(From the Chicago Defender)
Our naval training camp has every
nationality under the sun. As'a red
flag to flout into the face of the bull,
we have Chinamen out there, the
Filipino out there, the Greek out there,
the Hebrew out there, the Italian out
there, and God himself only' knows
what else out there, but we do know
that if we are anywhere near there
we are near the bathroom with a mop
and broom. Space must be made for
ithe boy of the Colored race in the
school for which we are paying taxes.
Defective Page
LET AGITATION GO ON, SAYS
REV. F. J. GRIMKE.
Commends Protest by Guardian and
PlanetRace Will Protest Till White
America Accords the Rights Which
Belong to Every American Citizen
Steady Decline of Rights Under
B. T. Washington Policy.
(From the Boston Guardian)
Washington, D. May 1, 1917
Dear Mr. Trotter.I have just read
in the last issue of the Guardian your
editorial, including the editorial of Mr
Mitchell of the Planet, in which
he administers a very just and timely
rebuke to Dr. Frissell for some things
which he says in the last issue of the
Southern Workman.
All Time.
Dr Frissell had just as well under
stand now, once for all, that the policy
for which he stands, as regards our
rights, will never be accepted by the
colored man. And the inculcation of
such a policy comes with very little
grace from white men who never
think of following it when their own
rights are involved.
Think Colored Unlike Whites.
It is because, after all, they think
that the Negro is made of a little dif
ferent clay, and therefore that it is
alright FOR HIM TO QUIETLY SUB
MIT TO WHAT WHITE MEN
WOULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO
SUBMIT TO, AND. WOULD NOT
SUBMIT TO WITHOUT THE MOST
VIGOROUS PROTEST?
Put Themselves In Our Place.
If some of our white friends would
put themselves in the place of the
colored man, and realize that there is
no essential difference between the
colored man and themselves, they
would be saved from some of the fool
ish things which they recommend at
times.
Let the Agitation Go On.
Let the Planet, let the Guardian, let
all the colored newspapers, continue
to speak out, and, in every other legiti
mate way, LET THE AGITATION GO
ON It is in vain for Dr. Frissell, or
any one else to try to stop it.
Yours for equality of rights for alt
citizens, regardless of race or condi
tion.
FRANCIS GRIMKE.
OFFICIAL NOTICE.
Segregated Training Camp for Colored
Citizens.
The following letter to the Chief of
Staff Departments of the Army gives
a brief outline of the provisions made
for training camps for colored citizens.
1. You are advised that training
camps for colored citizens will be es
tablished at Fort Des Moines, Iowa,
Section 54, National Defense
Act, and the regulations prescribed
for present training camps, except as
modified herein and hereafter. The
camp is under the control of the De
partment Commander, Central Depart-
REV JAMES S RUSSELL
First Colored Man to Be Elected Suffragan Bishop
Some of the papers are making a great "to do" over the election of a
suffragan bishop calling it "progress." As a matter of fact a suffragan bishop
is a "jim crow" bishop. He has no real power and is subject to the whims
and caprices of the bishop under whom he serves. The election of such a
bishop is an emphatic drawing of the color line. It is not progress, but
retrogression.
Rights Declined Under Washington.
It is amazing that at this late day,
and after the STEADY DECLINE OF
OUR RIGHTS UNDER MR. WASH
INGTON'S POLICY of "quiet, unpre
tentious service." -that Dr. Frissell
should be attempting to revive that
pernicious, un-American, unmanly,
heresay of quiet submission to wrong.
What God directed his prophet to dotional
was: "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up
thy voice like a trumpet, and declare
unto my people their transgression,
and the house of Jacob their sins."
And that is what we have been doing,
and will continue to do, until White
America heeds the message, turns
from its evil ways and accords to the
colored man the rights which justly
belongs to him as much as to any
other American citizen.
Let Frissell Understand Once and for
THE SIN OF SILENCE
To sin by silence when we should
protest makes cowards out of men.
The human race has climbed on pro
test. Had no voice been raised against
injustice, ignorance and lust, the in
quisition yet would serve the law, and
guillotines decide our least disputes.
The fee? who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs of
many.Ella Wheeler Wileex.
ment, who will prepare and conduct
the same The total attendance will
be twelve hundred fifty, of whom two
hundred fifty will be noncommissioned
officers of colored regiments of the
Regular Army, to be sent on detached
service status, and one thousand citi
zens either enlisted under Section 54
National Defense Act for three months
beginning June 18th, with agreement
to accept appointment tendered, or
members National Guard whose status
will be as in the case of National
Guardsmen now in training camps.
2. The contingents of citizens and
National Guardsmen from the various
departments is as follows: North
eastern Department 40, Eastern De
partment 240, Southeastern Depart
ment 430, Central Department 195,
Southern Department 75 plus contin
gent from Twenty-fourth Infantry 84
and Tenth Cavalry 57, Western De
partment 20
3. As far as consistent with the
character of applicants, it is desired
that men selected shall be not less
than 30 years of age. Local distribu
tion as between various States and
cities and between citizens and Na
Guardsmen is left to the discre
tion of Department Commanders
From all applicants Department Com
manders will select their contingent
so that definite notice to proceed to
the training camps may be given the
selected men not later than June 9th.
The training camps will be ready to
receive the noncommissioned officers
Oi the Regular Army June 5th, and
all others June 15th. The course of
instruction begins June 18th
In addition to the contingents men
tioned above, 84 men will be sent from
the Twenty-fifth Infantry in Hawaii
and 25 men from the Ninth Cavalry in
the Philippines.
Applications should be addressed to
the Commanding Generals of Depart
ments as follows- Northeastern De
partment, Boston, Mass, Eastern De
partment, Governors Island, N Y,
Southeastern Department. Charleston!
S. Southern Department, Fort Sam
Houston, Texas, Central Department.
Chicago. 111., Western Department, San
Francisco, Cal.
The contingent from each Depart
ment will be as follows: Northeastern
40, Eastern 240. Southeastern 430,
Central 195, Southern 75, Western 20
The remaining 250 will be noncommis
sioned officers from regiments as indi
cated above
P. McCAIN,
The Adjutant General
Hates the Term "Negro."
"I hate the term Negro because it
is being used in terms of hatred. It
is the cause of the segregation of the
Negro it is being used in contempt
in public places it is an excuse for
disfranchising him and it is an ex
cuse for lynching him. Only one
tenth of one per cent of the colored
people in America can trace their
descent to Africa, and there Is no
more right to call all colored people
Negroes than to call all white people
Turks or Armenians."Ex-Assistant
United States Attorney General Wm.
H. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Eternal Gospel
(From the Martinsville Pioneer-Press)
We have no respect for a servile,
cringing colored man He is of more
service to his people under the sod
than on top of it.Richmond (Va)
Planet. That is our eternal gospel
preach it in the valleys and on the
mountain tops.
Not Consistent
(Baltimore (Md.) Commonwealth)
President Wilson cannot consistent
ly contend for liberty, equality and
justice for Belgians, Russians, Poles,
French, English and Teutons without
conceding justice, liberty and equal
ity to ALL citizens of his own coun
try
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